Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-27

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NV YoaK. January 16.--The situs-
ton OF the coal-handler5 strike in Jer-
sey City and It's outskirts is changed to-
day only by the coal shippers extend
ing their operations and strengthening
their defences The battlefield has
been transferred to New York and
Brooklyn.
The 1ongshoremen are considering
the question of having general strike
along the docks and piers of the city.
An order was issued yesterday to all
the coal -shoyeIlers 10 refuse to handle
scab coal. The result il that to-day
there is no coal being landed in this
city by union men. The stoppage will
affect all the steamship lines who are
dependent on them for ordinary sup
plies. The union of the coal-shovellers
have as members all the men who I'M
load the canal-boats OF barges OF coal.
The longshoremen handle the coal for
the steamship lines the same
az regular merchandise. The two
unions are affiliated. The 'longshore-
men will not handle coal for
any steamship line taking freight
from the Old Dominion Line. The
three ships of the Wilson Line are
tied up because the company accepted
Old Dominion freight. Trouble is eI-
pected at the Cunard pier. The Gallia
arrived this morning. The men were
to begin unloading at | o'clock. The
men were ordered not to begin work
because Old Dominion freight was re-
ceived. The Anchor Line is in the
same fix. Both unions are hopeful of
success. The longshoremen have en-
couraging reports from Newport News,
West Point, and Norfolk. They state
that the Old Dominion Company has
much difficulty there in handling its
freight. Il is said by the men that the
company has had its receipts reduced
to one twentieth part of what 1t was
! formerly by the strike
Phkets from the union are watching
at Tompkinsville, Staten Island,
where the Old Dominion Company has
been using the American Dock Com
pany's sheds for storage purposes. AS
soon asa lighter arrives there pickets
| call out the men and the lighter has to
tie-up until non-union men can be sent
from this city. The officials of the
| Old Dominion say that they have all
| the men they need Over 100 men were
| unloading the steamer Algiers to-day.
| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Maury issued
an order to-day ordering all the re-
serves out. He considers the situation
as threatening, and says he will not be
caught mapping. Bythis order | ,2OOmen
can be concentrated at any point in the
| city at an hours notice. In Brooklyn
no trouble has yet occurred. AT Lam
berts stores police protection was de-
manded; the men declared they
would refuse to handle Anchor Line
| freight as it came from the Old
Dominion Line The police reserves
were all called out. The men
at the Mediterranean stores quit work
this morning. They were loading the
Italian steamer independents and found
some freight from the Old Dominion
Line. The men at work on the steamer
| PoNhatan also quit work.
JERSEY CITY, January 2G. About
| o'clock this afternoon 40 longshore-
men. employed on the Red Star and
Inman steamship docks, foot Of York
street, struck work. The strike was
caused by the arrival of the grain-ele-
vator Ceres to load the Red Star steamer
| Pennland. The Ceres is manned by
non-union men, and when this fact be
came known the men struck. Superln
tendent Brewster offered the men 81
per week and 40 cents per hour for over
time if they would resume work, but
they refused. About dozen men ar
rived at Centreville station to-day TO fill
the places of the strikers. They had
scarcely left the depot when gang OF
strikers made an assault upon them
and hut for the timely arrival of the
police serious results might have en-
sued. Thirty 'longshoremen employed
on the barge A. ID. Killduff, lying at the
foot of Newark street, Hoboken
stopped work this morning i'll sympa
thy with the strikers. They were Wis
tied by walking delegates. The barge
was discharging coal at the chute OF the
Hoboken Ferry Company, and unles
the Ferry company receives a supply
of coal in few days the ferry-boat
will be obliged to stop running. The
steamer Island of the Thingvalla Line
is registered to sail on Saturday from
Hoboken, but its departure may be de
layed, as the company has been unable
10 get Il supply of coal.